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Amphimedon nodosa (Linnaeus, 1759)

1814728  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1814728)

accepted
Species
Amphimedon rubens (Pallas, 1766) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Ceraochalina arborescens Topsent, 1932 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Chalina rubens (Pallas, 1766) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Haliclona (Amphimedon) compressa (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Pachychalina rubens (Pallas, 1766) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia arborescens var. gamma Lamarck, 1814 · unaccepted (genus transfer and homonym)
Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Spongia rubens Pallas, 1766 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia rubens sensu Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
marine, brackish, terrestrial
(of Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759) Linnaeus, C. (1759). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. - pp. [1-4], 825-1384. Holmiæ. (L. Salvii)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/587267 [details] OpenAccess publication
Neotype  (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing &...  
Lectotype (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) ZMA Por. 00863, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]
Neotype (of Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759) RMNH POR.11886, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Amphimedon nodosa (Linnaeus, 1759). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=1814728 on 2025-11-13
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original description (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 78-79; pl XVII fig 2 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Spongia arborescens var. gamma Lamarck, 1814) Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458.
page(s): 446 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Spongia rubens sensu Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 41; pl X fig 1 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Spongia rubens Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. [List of zoophytes containing general outlines of genera and brief descriptions of known species, with selected synonyms of the authors.]. <em>Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae.</em> 451 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361
page(s): 389-390 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759) Linnaeus, C. (1759). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. - pp. [1-4], 825-1384. Holmiæ. (L. Salvii)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/587267 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Amphimedon arborescens var. ensiformis Duchassing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 79 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Amphimedon arborescens (Lamarck, 1814) sensu Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 79; pl XIV fig 2 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Ceraochalina arborescens Topsent, 1932) Topsent, E. (1932). Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Deuxième partie. <em>Archives du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Paris.</em> (6) 8: 61-124, pls I-VI.
page(s): 104-106 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

new combination reference Van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). Typification of Porifera described in the 10th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, volume II, 1759. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5638(1): 1-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5638.1.1
page(s): 17 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record (of Spongia rubens Pallas, 1766) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). Typification of Porifera described in the 10th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, volume II, 1759. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5638(1): 1-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5638.1.1
page(s): 17 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record (of Haliclona (Amphimedon) compressa (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)) Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 82-84 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record (of Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). Typification of Porifera described in the 10th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, volume II, 1759. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5638(1): 1-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5638.1.1
page(s): 17 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record (of Spongia rubens Pallas, 1766) Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 83 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Spongia rubens Pallas, 1766) Wilkens, C.F. (1787). P.S. Pallas, Charakteristik der Thierpflanzen. Nach seinem Tode herausgegeben von J.F.W. Herbst. <em>Raspischen Buchhandlung, Nürnberg.</em> pp. 265 + 22 (unnumbered) + pls. XXVI.
page(s): 226 [details] 

additional source (of Spongia rubens Pallas, 1766) Boddaert, P. 1768. Lyst der Plant-Dieren, p. (1-50) + 1-654, pls. 1-14. Van Paddenburg & Van Schoonhoven, Utrecht.
page(s): 491 [details] 

additional source (of Spongia rubens sensu Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 193 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Spongia rubens Pallas, 1766) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 41 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Burton, M. (1954). Sponges. Pp. 215-239, pl. 9. <i>In</i>: The 'Rosaura' Expedition. Part 5. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology.</em> 2 (6).
page(s): 223 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Green, G. (1977). Sinopsis taxonómica de trece especies de esponjas del arrecife La Blanquilla, Ver., México. <em>Anales del Instituto Cienciasdel Mar y Limnologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.</em> 4(1): 79-98.
page(s): 86 [details] 

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Hartman, W.D. (1955). A collection of sponges from the west coast of the Yucatan Peninsula with descriptions of two new species. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean.</em> 5 (3): 161-189.
page(s): 167-168 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Hechtel, G.J. (1965). A systematic study of the Demospongiae of Port Royal, Jamaica. <em>Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.</em> 20: 1-103.
page(s): 18-19 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 40-42; pl 7 fig 2 & pl 8 fig 1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1949). Sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1431: 1-25.
page(s): 9 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1953). Sponges from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean.</em> 2(3): 511-557.
page(s): 519 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Little, F.J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George's Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. <em>Tulane Studies in Zoology 11(2).</em> 31-71.
page(s): 39 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. [List of zoophytes containing general outlines of genera and brief descriptions of known species, with selected synonyms of the authors.]. <em>Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae.</em> 451 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Haliclona rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Pomponi, S. A. (1976). A cytological study of the Haliclonidae and the Callyspongiidae (Porifera, Demospongia, Haplosclerida). <em>Aspects of Sponge Biology.</em> Academic Press, New York, pp. 215-235., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-327950-7.50020-8
page(s): 220 [details] 

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 48 (5): 71-103.
page(s): 91 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1986). A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 86: 65-216.
page(s): 168 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1980). Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part II. Haplosclerida. <i>In</i>: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 104. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 62 (191): 1-173.
page(s): 26-29; fig 9 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 197 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. , available online at http://ISBN 958-9068-05-7
page(s): 72-75; fig 18 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Díaz, M.C. (2005). Common sponges from shallow marine habitats from Bocas del Toro region, Panama. <em>Caribbean Journal of Science.</em> 41(3): 465-475. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 469 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Lehnert, H. (1993). Die Schwämme von Cozumel (Mexiko). Bestandsaufnahme, kritischer Vergleich taxonomischer Merkmale, und Beschreibung einer neuen Art (The sponges from Cozumel (Mexico). Inventory, critical comparison of taxonomic characters and description of a new species. <em>Acta Biolologica Benrodis.</em> 5: 35-127 (in German, with abstracts in German and English).
page(s): 43-44 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Rützler, K.; Díaz, M.C.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Zea, S.; Smith, K.P.; Alvarez, B.; Wulff, J. (2000). Diversity of sponge fauna in mangrove ponds, Pelican Cays, Belize. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 476: 230-248.
page(s): 237 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Muricy, G.; Lopes, D.A.; Hajdu, E; Carvalho, M.S.; Moraes, F.C.; Klautau, M.; Menegola, C.; Pinheiro, U. (2011). Catalogue of Brazilian Porifera. <em>Museu Nacional, Série Livros.</em> 300 pp.
page(s): 103 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Vacelet, J. (1990). Les spongiaires. <i>in</i> Le Monde Marin. (ed. Claude Bouchon) pp 16-33. <em>La Grande Encyclopédie de la Caraïbe.</em> Editions Caraïbes, Pointe à Pitre.
page(s): 27 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Sarmento, F.; Correia, M.D. (2002). Descrição de parâmetros ecológicos e morfológicos externos dos poríferos no recife de coral da Ponta Verde, Maceió, Alagoas, Brasil. <em>Revista Brasileira de Zoociências.</em> 4(2): 215–226.
page(s): 221 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Pérez, T. ; Díaz, M.C.; Ruiz, C.; Cóndor-Luján, B.; Klautau, M.; Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Zea, S.; Pomponi, S.A.; Thacker, R.W.; Carteron, S.; Tollu, G.; Pouget-Cuvelier, A.; Thélamon, P.; Marechal, J.-P.; Thomas, O.P.; Ereskovsky, A.E.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2017). How a collaborative integrated taxonomic effort has trained new spongiologists and improved knowledge of Martinique Island (French Antilles, eastern Caribbean Sea) marine biodiversity. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 12 (3): e0173859., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173859
page(s): 10 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Ugalde, D.; Fernandez, J.C.C.; Gómez, P.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Simões, N. (2021). An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern gulf of Mexico coral reefs. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5031 (1): 001–112., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5031.1.1
page(s): 38 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Dat, T. T. H.; Cuc, N. T. K.; Cuong, P. V. (2018). Molecular taxonomy of some sponges (Demospongiae) using ribosomal (18s rrna) and partial mitochondrial (coi) genes. <em>Academia Journal of Biology.</em> 40(4): 67-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.15625/2615-9023/v40n4.12705
page(s): Table 1; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Amphimedon rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 79 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Amphimedon arborescens (Lamarck, 1814) sensu Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 197 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature: according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places. Ed. 12. 1., Animal Kingdom. 1 & 2]. <em>Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii.</em> pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5
page(s): 1298 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3821 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759) Olivi, G. (1792). Zoologia Adriatica, ossia catalogo ragionato degli animali del golfo e della lagune di Venezia. Bassano [G. Remondini e fl.]. [ix] + 334 + xxxii pp., 9 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123881 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759) Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. [List of zoophytes containing general outlines of genera and brief descriptions of known species, with selected synonyms of the authors.]. <em>Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae.</em> 451 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Pachychalina rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Wilson, H.V. (1902 [1900]). The sponges collected in Porto Rico in 1899 by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk. <em>Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission.</em> 2: 375-411.
page(s): 392 [details] OpenAccess publication

new combination reference (of Chalina rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Carter, H.J. (1882). Some Sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory Remarks. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 9(52): 266-301, 346-368, pls XI-XII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26194801#page/360/mode/1up
page(s): 276 [details] OpenAccess publication

new combination reference (of Pachychalina rubens (Pallas, 1766)) Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI.
page(s): 37 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
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Lectotype (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) ZMA Por. 00863, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]
Neotype (of Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759) RMNH POR.11886, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]
Paralectotype (of Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) MSNT Por. 35, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy See Van Soest, 2025: 17 for a detailed history and synonymy of this common Caribbean species. [details]
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English red sponge [from synonym]  [details]
German Roter Geweihschwamm [from synonym]  [details]


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